Resilient tire for motor-cars and other vehicles.



H. DIAMANT. RESILIENT TIRE FOR MOTOR (JARS AND OTHER VEHICLES.

APBLIGATION FILED MAY 7, 1914.

1,1 10,750. Patented Sept. 15, 1914.

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HERMAN DIAMANT, or country or inrnnnnsnx, ENGLAND.

RESILIENT TIRE MOTOR-CABS AND OTHER VEHICLES.

Application filed May 7, 1914. Serial No. 836,953.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that I, HERMAN DIAMANT, subject of the King of Great Britain and residing at No. l-i, l/Vcstbourne Terrace, road, in the county oi Middlesex, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Resilient Tires for Motor-Cars and other Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in resilient tires for motor cars and other vehicles, such tires being of the hollow or arched cushion type and filled with air which is not necessarily under pressure and in which the sides of the tire are either tied together at a place between the tread and the rim or folly to prevent collapse of the tire outwardly or are provided with struts at that place to prevent collapse inwardly.

According to this invention the tire which is preferably made more or less in the form of an arch in cross section is provided in ternally with an annular projecting flange or flanges on opposite sides, the two flanges of a pair being connected together by links,

vso as to prevent or reduce any tendency for the tire to collapse externally or internally or to otherwise become unduly deformed under a load. The tire is conveniently held fast or clamped to the rim or telly of the wheel by known means, such. as annular angular clamping plates or rings and bolts or otherwise.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a vertical section through a tire constructed according to this invention and Fig. 2 is a plan section on the line ll-ll of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan section showing the links arranged zig-zag; Fig. t is a part vertical. sec tion showing the links crossing one another and Fig. 5 is a vertical section of another construction of tire and arrangement of link.

In carrying the invention into eflect and according to one construction as shown in F 1 and 2, the telly or rim a, which may be of wood, is flat on its outer periphery and the tire Z) which is more or less trough shaped in cross section has in the region of its inner periphery two annular inwardly projecting beads 0, each of which is adapted to seat itself against the side of the folly a. The outer peripheries of the heads 0 merge into an annular part-circular recess 0? a? in each wall of the tire 6 into which recesses takes an annular band 6 with rounded or turned-over flanges or edges f of known constructiom the said band 0 being of such an internal diameter as to just fit onthe outer periphery of the folly a and it may either be fixed to the folly as usual or it may be loose thereon. Below the annular part circular recesses (Z are two annular internally projecting flanges g g somewhat closer together than the said annular beads and below these annular flanges g is an annular trough or recess 7; of more or less semi-clrcular cross 'soctiom the thickness of the rubber or other material below this trough forming the tread z of the tire, which tread may have Specification of Letters Patent. .Pgttented Sept, 15, 1-914,

annular grooves 76, as shown or it may be semi-circular and provided. with studs or projections or the tread may have transverse bars or be fashioned in any other suitable or well known. manner. The flanges g g are provided with a number of holes, radial to the axis of the wheel, and the opposite flanges g g are connected together by a number of pairs of straight fiat metal links Z and m and bolts a, one link Z of a pair being above and the other link m being below the flanges so that the two links of a pair are fastened together and to the flanges by the bolts or screws 77. a. The links Z and m are parallel to the telly a, the bolts n are suitably passed through a lower link m, then through the holes in the annular flanges 9 through the corresponding upper link Z and finally the nuts are screwed up tightly but obviously the bolts may be replaced by screws which are first passed through the links Z then through the holes in the flanges and finally screwed into screwthreaded holes in the links m. 01' as shown in Fig. 3 the links 8 may if desired be connected to the flanges g in such a manner as to be arranged zig-zag crossing each other in approximately the same peripheral plane. Or as illustrated in Fig. 4:, one end of a linkt is fastened to the top of a flange 9, while the other end of the link may be fixed below to the opposite flange. Moreover according to another construction and as shown in Fig. 5, there may be two concentric flanges u and e on each side of the interior of the tire, the opposite flanges of a pair being connected by crossed links 25.

The flanges are preferably but not necessarilyreinforced with canvas or insertion and the holes in the flanges may be lined or hushed with metal. The tire is suitably hold fast or clamped to the rim or telly of the wheelas shown in Fig. l'loy means of an 'nular clamping plates to and bolts 9: which.

pass through holes in theplaniping plates w, the sides of the tire b and the telly a so as to clamp the beads 0 of the tire against the sides of the felly and the part circular recesses 65 againstwthe turned over flanges 'oredges f of the annular band 6. a

'the tire have inwardly projecting heads 3 with curved' outer surfaces, the clamping plates v4E are alsocurved and perforated to take bolts 5, the heads and nuts of which take against lugs or loose washers 6 shaped to conforni to the curve of the clamping plates.

I claim, r j 1. A hollow resilient tire provided on each innerside with an? annular radially perforated projecting flange, the two flanges being connected by rigid links and bolts said boltspassing through the links and the holes in the flanges. i

2. A hollow resilient tire having anyannular projecting flange on'eaoh inner side, and links fastened on the outer side of one flange and on the inner side of the other iqupiefsvof this patentimaiylbe obtainedfoi five cents each by ad'dressingfljle Commissioner of Patents. i Washington, 1), 3 h 1 j j v 

